I am Groot

All you're saying is you don't think voting is important.

That you don't know anything about sociology and are too lazy to examine the statistics. The communities with the best success are the ones who prioritize education and have the least one-parent families. That is, in order, Asians, Jews, and Mormons. After that, general whites, and then other minorities. AI Overview The U.S. provides Israel with approximately $3.8 billion in aid annually, primarily for military assistance. This commitment is part of a larger, ten-year agreement signed in 2016, totaling $38 billion, and extends through 2028. You're just realizing this now?

The natives have no idea how many of them there were, as they had no written language and no way to travel aside from on rivers.

Only white people need to make reparations for their ancestors. Because, as whites, we're better people, more civilized, more intelligent, wiser in all ways than the brown people. Therefore, we must be held responsible for behaviour which is ignored or excused when brown people do it.

The idea that people today should make apologies and reparations for something they didn't do to people who were never around at the time is uniquely moronic. And again stems from white liberal guilt and nothing remotely resembling logic or common sense. Every empire in the world is ignored. Only the white people who came to North America are to be held liable for being more successful than those here at the time, and made to feel ashamed of their guilt.

You are trying to impose Western Capitalist ways of possession and ownership on people who hadn't even invented the wheel yet. They did not 'own' the land. They had their shacks or tents on some section of it at one time or other before moving on, hunted over broad areas near the river since they had no way of moving any distance on the land, and their only idea of territorial possession was when they came up against another tribe they couldn't easily defeat. Land in North America just as in the rest of the world, changed hands back and forth down through history, everywhere depending on which tribe/clan/nation was stronger at any given point in time.The natives did it the same way. When Europeans moved in they spread out and either bought - because that was how they thought - huge tracts of land from the natives, or simply pushed them off (far more gently than the natives did to each other). To say at this point in time, centuries later, that the land was 'stolen' is to suggest every inch of land in the world was stolen at one point or another. It is just another example of lefties with their paternalistic view of 'the white man's burden', as if we, being uniquely wise, cultured and civilized, should not have acted like every other civilization that came before us (none of which are ever criticized). So if there's a draft should we draft 16 year olds to go and fight?

The Left loves that word 'hate'. It was never heard a few years back. Now it's everywhere. The slightest disagreement on identity/social justice issues has to be labeled 'hate'. You can't simply disagree with policy. You must 'hate' someone. I would say the Left's hatred of anyone and everyone who disagrees with their brainless ideological positions is vastly more common than people hating identity groups.

Because women don't have biological clocks?

I've been suggesting a test for potential voters for literally decades. Test their knowledge about the political parties and about the nation's finances and laws. If you don't pass, you don't vote. Sure I do. Someone suggests having 16 year olds vote. I point out that human brain development isn't completely until the early twenties and that the prefrontal cortex, responsible for decision making, is the last to fully develop. That is logic. All you're doing is furthering my belief that you don't understand logic.

And they're not even correct.

You need parental consent or a court order to get married or apply for a passport because you're too dumb to make those decisions yourself. Medical decisions are made by doctors, and there are limited cases where anyone under 18 can give the go-ahead without parental consent. They are not held fully responsible for crimes, which is why they're charged as juveniles and go to juvenile courts. This is inane. Biological fact says our brains aren't fully developed at 16.

Carney has been saying the right words. Poilievre has been largely invisible. The media don't pay any attention to an opposition leader this early in an election cycle, especially one without a seat. Yes. My point is he's said things but done little or nothing, as yet on which to judge him. But it's easy to say things people approve of and considerably more difficult to actually get things done. Especially when you're stuck with the collection of halfwits that make up his cabinet.

His numbers haven't gone down, which is kind of remarkable. The last poll I saw put the Conservatives at 40%. That's majority government territory in a normal election. I.e. one where the NDP hasn't collapsed because of their frenzied, ferocious addiction to identity politics and being on the wrong side of the culture war. Right now, Carney is making all the right noises. But that's all it is - noise. He hasn't actually DONE anything. He hadn't sped up approvals on mining/resource/oil&gas projects, hasn't improved the economy, hasn't improved the military, hasn't improved immigration or refugees, hasn't delivered a budget so people can see his immense deficit. He's just made noises. In a year or so it will dawn on people that he's likely not going to do any of the things he's making noises about and that our debt load continues to grow as our economy continues to shrink.

Thomas Sowell was once asked by a Rabbi what the Jews could do to make people stop hating them. His answer was one word: "Lose". Small people are bitterly jealous of the fact that Jews are winners in life. They get married, have kids, take care of those kids together, ensure those kids get properly educated, send them to university, and make them into good, solid citizens. They work together, cooperate, and settle disputes with words, not fists or knives. Thus they prosper. Small people don't do those things and yet they're still angry at the Jews for having what they don't have. They feel its unfair of the Jews to succeed when they don't, even though they refuse to do the things Jews do to succeed. Israel succeeds where all the countries around them fail. It has no oil and no resources to speak of but people. And they've built a vastly better society than anywhere else in the region. So Arabs are bitterly jealous. Arabs don't value education and don't cooperate. They settle disputes with fists and knives. They believe they are following the word of God. Yet they do not thrive like the Jews. Their societies are going nowhere. So they point at the Jews. It must be THEIR fault. You and they are a lot alike.

You're a loony, you are.

If you're not on medication, you definitely should be.

If you're telling me you don't understand logic, I agree that would be entirely consistent with your posting history.

I didn't realize you were going back 75 years. Maybe if you want to denounce them, you should use something somewhat more recent.

It's not evident Israel was doing this so much as refusing to allow NGOs and the UN they clearly felt (with good reason) were far too sympathetic to the Palestinians to do it lest they smuggle weapons and ammo in.

Are you including the time they occupied by the Jordanians and Egyptians in that? Go away, Nazi.

The problem I have with this 'oppression' narrative is that they were LESS oppressed than just about anyone else in the Arab world prior to the Intifidas. And better off economically.

They don't like having Jews around them.

This is the exact sort of argument that might have been made on behalf of the Japanese or Germans in WW2 if anyone in the world had been dumb enough to start campaigning on their behalf even as the West was trying to retake France and Italy, and starting to bomb Japan. It's not THEIR fault! It's just their government! Well, if you know of a way to just attack their government and not them, please let the world know. Also, do you recall that ever happening anywhere in the world ever in history? And a bunch more voted for other terrorist groups. You forget that part? It was certainly more than 50% who voted for terrorists. When was the last government in Canada elected with more than 50% of the vote? Mulroney, wasn't it? Have all the rest been illegitimate?

The Arabs in that area were mostly nomadic Bedouins who moved back and forth with the winds of time. I doubt you could trace any particular lineage back that far other than the Jews.

Is this the White Man's Burden? We have ZERO responsibility to anyone in that area. The problems in that area are entirely of their own making. Like a lot of lefties, you insist that no matter what local brown people do, it has to ultimately be the white man's fault. Brown people have no agency. Brown people aren't responsible for anything. Brown people are, in the minds of so many on the Left, not quite human, sort of children for whom we wise, wealthy white people must always take care of. Sorry. No. The Arabs started the fighting. The Arabs have kept up the fighting. The responsibility is theirs.